Building Recertification in North Miami

The notice

North Miami’s page does not say who sends the notice or how it arrives. It mentions the notice only under the exemptions: if one is received, it is the owner’s responsibility to request an exemption in writing from the Building Official. The structural form the city posts asks for the date of the Notice of Required Inspection, so keep the letter.

Who is exempt

North Miami’s page says all buildings and structures are covered except single-family residences and duplexes, agricultural exempt buildings, and minor buildings within both a floor-area limit and an occupancy limit. It adds that both conditions must apply, and that the occupancy counted is the potential load for the building’s use classification in the code.

The city’s forms

North Miami posts four documents under the heading “Miami-Dade County Approved forms for Report Submittal”. Two are the report forms — the structural and the electrical recertification inspection guidelines — and the structural one is marked “MDC Building Recertification Structural Report”; the other two are parking-lot certifications.

What goes with them

The two parking-lot documents are certifications of compliance, one for parking-lot guardrails and one for parking-lot illumination; North Miami lists both, and each goes in where it applies to the property. The electrical form the city posts also has a section for thermography results, filled in where the building’s electrical service requires that inspection.

Filing the report

North Miami’s page does not say how or where the report is filed, or what happens once it is in: it names no portal, no e-mail address and no counter for it. Its contact for the program is a Building Officer at the Building Department’s phone number. The letter and that office settle the way to file; we confirm it with the department first.

Repairs

North Miami’s recertification page says nothing about permits for repairs. The city’s guardrail certification does: where there is no complying guardrail, it records that the owner has been advised to obtain a permit to install one. Separately, the city’s online permitting page — which is about permits in general — says scopes of work outside its online list need an in-person application.

If it is late

North Miami’s page prints no deadline of its own, and it does not say how an extension is requested or what follows a late report. For guidance and questions it points to Miami-Dade County’s recertification page. The county’s times to file and to repair are in the rows below.

The program’s name

North Miami’s page is titled “Milestone Recertification”, followed by the cycle in years. It is the program still called the 40-year recertification: the page recounts its origin and says Miami-Dade has since shortened the inspection cycle. Its forms are the ones the county approves for the report; the ages in force are in the rows further down.

Building office City of North Miami Building Department 12340 NE 8th Avenue North Miami, FL 33161 Phone: (305) 895-9820

Read on the website of the City of North Miami Building Department: October 9, 2026